Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 14

And the play went on till there were no more Animals left without orders; and the Eldest Magician wiped the fine dust off his hands and walked about the world to see how the Animals were playing.

Who acts: play, more Animals, Eldest Magician, Animals · What happens: go on, be, leave, wipe, walk, see · To what, where: more Animals, fine dust, hands · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Crab That Played With the Sea. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (play, more Animals, Eldest Magician, Animals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 went	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 play	det
3	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	till	till	SCONJ	_	8 were	mark
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 were	expl
8	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
9	no	no	ADV	_	11 Animals	advmod
10	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 Animals	amod
11	Animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 were	nsubj
12	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 Animals	acl
13	without	without	ADP	_	14 orders	case
14	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 left	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 wiped	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 wiped	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Magician	det
18	Eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 Magician	amod
19	Magician	Magician	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 wiped	nsubj
20	wiped	wipe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 dust	det
22	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 dust	amod
23	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wiped	obj
24	off	off	ADP	_	26 hands	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 hands	nmod:poss
26	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 wiped	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 walked	cc
28	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 wiped	conj
29	about	about	ADP	_	31 world	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 world	det
31	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 walked	obl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 see	mark
33	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 walked	advcl
34	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	38 playing	advmod
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Animals	det
36	Animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 playing	nsubj
37	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 playing	aux
38	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 see	ccomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go on	past	the play				vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	be	past	more Animals		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	leave	participle		more Animals not said here		without orders	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	wipe	past	the Eldest Magician	the fine dust	play's hands		vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent dust=Theme off hand=Trajectory
5	walk	past	the Eldest Magician not said here			about the world	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about world=Trajectory
6	see	to-infinitive	the Eldest Magician not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	play	past · progressive	the Animals				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/11/14/